Clinton donor got State Department invite — and Bill got $17M.

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Clinton donor got State Department invite — and Bill got $17M.

The head of a for-profit university that donated up to $5 million to the Clinton Foundation was rewarded with an invite to a high-profile State Department dinner at the request of then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Doug Becker, CEO of Laureate International University, got his senior VP, Joseph Duffey, into the meeting of world-class academics at the August 2009 dinner because Becker was someone “who Bill likes a lot” and his school was “the fastest growing college network in the world,” Clinton wrote in an e-mail to her chief of staff revealed on WikiLeaks.
“It’s a for-profit model that should be represented.”
Roughly nine months later, the university signed Bubba to a sweet deal as an “honorary chancellor,” paying him $17.6 million over five years until the contract ended in 2015 as his wife launched her presidential run.
Analysts said Duffey’s presence at the dinner likely opened doors to the school that otherwise might have remained closed.

You don’t say.

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